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Ashley Avis
Ashley Avis (born January 27, 1987) is an American screenwriter, director, editor, and producer. Her feature films include Disney's Black Beauty (2020) starring Kate Winslet and Mackenzie Foy along with the Critics Choice nominated documentary, ''Wild Beauty: Mustang Spirit of the West''. She is also a journalist and published author, with work featured in publications such as ''Rolling Stone.'' Early life Avis was born in Chicago, Illinois to Richard Avis and Victoria Woods. She has one younger brother, Richard Avis. At five years old, Avis' family relocated from Chicago to St. Petersburg, Florida where Avis grew up. She was a competitive equestrian from the age of seven to seventeen, competing on the hunter/jumper circuit in Florida. Avis has expressed that she always wanted to become a writer, and thought she would eventually become a young adult author or novelist. She attended college in New York, double majoring in International Business and Marketing at Manhattan Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Critics' Week
Critics' Week (), until 2008 called International Critics' Week ('), is a parallel section to the Cannes Film Festival organized by the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics. History Critics' week was created in 1962, after the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics' successful campaign for Shirley Clarke's '' The Connection'' to be screened at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. It is the oldest non-official Cannes sidebar. Critics' Week's objective is to discover and support new talents, showcasing first and second feature films by directors worldwide. Bernardo Bertolucci, Philip Kaufman, Ken Loach, Tony Scott, Agnieszka Holland, Leos Carax, Wong Kar-wai, Guillermo del Toro, Jacques Audiard, Arnaud Desplechin, Gaspar Noé, François Ozon, Andrea Arnold, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Julia Ducournau, Justine Triet, all began at Critics' Week. Since its creation in 1990 and until 2010, there was no jury at Critics' Week. Journalists of all nationalities were invited to vote at the end of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |